reblogging for the second time because I still laugh uncontrollably. in my mind the cows are trying to be gracious about their strange gift. ‘yes we love it thank u’
also love cyberpunk to death but hate how you can’t be fat like you’re telling me it’s 2077 and i can’t choose to be fat . fuck you
had a similar problem with bg3 like its cool i can play as a dragon and all but would love if i could have my body size accurately represented too
and if you mention this at all everyone gets really mad i wonder why that is
i think what the problem is honestly and truly is that game developers (and honestly lots and lots of people) don’t ever believe that a fat person could be comfortable in being fat , or that anyone could ever want to be fat or play as a fat person, period. and both these games share a similar issue where they don’t really have any fat main characters, and the fat characters they do have are evil and disgusting and constantly dunked on for their weight. it’s “escapism” and in people’s perfect escapist fantasy fat people don’t exist. everyone is beautiful and skinny and perfect. kind of evil if you ask me. escapist fantasy is very reflective of what we subconsciously believe.
like lol. really
and people love to make the “well if you’re an adventurer/fighter/mercenary/edgerunner you wouldn’t be fat” like oh so now we care about realism in video games . that’s what this is about? in our role playing games?
that’s what fuckin kills me every time. for years the body positive movement had to argue against people saying “animating fat characters is impossible!” and then BG3 has like five of them and they’re all some variety of greedy fucked up hedonist who’s either an idiot coward or evil or both
and that it’s 2026 now and your options for Fat Characters in shows/movies/games/whatever boil down to “this one isn’t fatphobic (because no fats exist)” vs “this one has fat characters (the narrative is wildly horrible about them)” is fucking infuriating
when i worked at cracker barrel (vision darkens for a moment) we all got custom aprons with our names embroidered on them but not for 90 days bc the barrel isn’t gonna invest in custom embroidery if you can’t hack it. so until you get your own aprons you wear an apron that says ‘rising star’ on it. the issue being every single other person who works there is wearing aprons with their real names. so every single day for 3 months customers would be like 'can we get a table for 4? thank you, Rising Star. and what an interesting name!’
Rising Star would genuinely be a very lovely name but it wasn’t mine and I did just think it was funny that the power of the Apron Name had such command.
The idea of “but everyone knows that” needs to stop.
I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.
Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!
But let me tell you a story:
I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.
One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.
At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.
I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.
Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.
The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.
And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.
So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.
So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.
By all means, let them know so they can make informed decisions, but being kind will go a lot further than attacking them for some info they might not know yet.
